What's the best way to break from inner loop so I reach beginning of the outer loop
while condition:
while second_condition:
if some_condition_here:
get_to_the_beginning_of_first_loop
Right now I got something like
while condition:
while second_condition:
if condition1:
break
if condition1:
continue
Python has the option of an else: clause for while loops. This is called if you do not call break, so these are equivalent:
while condition:
while second_condition:
if condition1:
break
if condition1:
continue
do_something_if_no_break()
and:
while condition:
while second_condition:
if condition1:
break
else:
do_something_if_no_break()
for x in mylist: if x==5: break else: print("No five found!")
condition1 uses some variable defined inside of second block what to do in this case.?else trick in my answer then you only need condition1 inside the second block, so I don't see the problem.Just to build on @ArthurTacca's answer, you use Python's else operator to make an elegant, arbitrary-depth break capability:
# Copied from ArthurTacca
while condition:
while second_condition:
if condition1:
break
else:
do_something_if_no_break()
# Minor addition
continue # This avoids the break below
break # Fires if the inner loop hit a "break"
Note that this else:continue/break pattern can be repeated to an arbitrary depth, and works for for loops too.
